noun
definition
A sovereign or ruler.
adjective
definition
Reigning, ruling; currently holding power.
definition
Dominant; holding sway; having particular power or influence.
Examples of regnant in a Sentence
Let them think forward and visualize the effect if this idea should become regnant.
There was Mary, but no queen regnant had yet ruled in England; Margaret Beaufort had been passed over in favour of her son in 1485, and there was a popular impression that women were excluded from the throne.
The second half of the 15th century was destined to be the age of academies in Italy, and the regnant passion for antiquity satisfied itself with any imitation, however grotesque, of Greek or Roman institutions.
It was supposed that he would marry the queen regnant, Christina, but her unsurmountable objection to wedlock put an end to these anticipations, and to compensate her cousin for a broken half-promise she declared him (1649) her successor, despite the opposition of the senate headed by the venerable Axel Oxenstjerna.
About 523 he had married the famous Theodora, who, as empress regnant, was closely associated in all his actions till her death in 547.